The Female CEO Falls in Love with Me

Chapter 1172: Chapter 365: Chongcheng, Experts

Chapter 365 Chong City, Master

(Tomorrow is Xiao Lai’s birthday, I said I’ll buy her books but she doesn’t want them, she wants toys, sigh, kids these days...)

"Brother Li, are you planning to launder some money in this way as well?" Duan Haibo felt that Li Yan certainly wouldn’t come up with this method suddenly; there must be some inspiration.

His question made Li Yan freeze. "Me?... I’m still more inclined toward investments. But my wife is very skilled in investments, not easy to fool, so I set up a shell company and teamed up with friends abroad to cheat some venture capital."

Duan Haibo felt a bit embarrassed, it seems all men are alike, sometimes they have to tell some white lies for their women. But opening a shell company and teaming up with foreign friends to stage a venture capital fraud seems to make one’s own woman simpler.

"If your wife is good at investment, cheating venture capital might be easily uncovered; why not join in on the stone gambling?" Seeing that Li Yan was truly considering himself and not just doing it in passing, Duan Haibo was quite grateful.

This made Li Yan hesitate: "Then how much should I gamble? If it’s not big enough, it might not have any effect, if it’s too big, I’m afraid she might easily find out."

Li Yan doesn’t need to gamble on stones, nor does Duan Haibo, it’s an unreliable matter to both of them, even if such an opportunity were real, they wouldn’t do it. If they really needed money, they were confident in making it in their own industry.

However, not gambling on stones doesn’t mean they couldn’t use this excuse. Initially, Li Yan just wanted to use this opportunity to help Duan Haibo settle the matter so that if he ever left here, it wouldn’t be feasible to continue helping him with slow ’investment’. But now with Duan Haibo suggesting he do the same, Li Yan became a bit hesitant.

"As you said earlier, stone gambling is not as illegal as other things. In some way, it’s simply a transaction of buying stones with money, the only difference is there might be jade or emerald inside the stones. Perhaps you can try a bit, if your wife can accept it, continue. Hey, I’m not very knowledgeable, especially about modern financial investments, but judging by intuition, the method you mentioned earlier seems a bit simpler." Duan Haibo got more confident in this method the more he thought about it.

Li Yan thought for a while and decided, anyway, Mountain Stone Investment is a shell investment company, what’s invested isn’t the main concern? Any other financial product isn’t under one’s control, even if recruiting top-notch professionals, there’s still risk involved, the greater the financial product’s potential return, the bigger the risk. Stone gambling is just an act of putting on a show. Making Zheng Tian handle it isn’t too difficult, just a matter of slightly adjusting the previous cooperation model.

The most important thing is that Zhang Yurong previously already figured out his venture capital scam, and now knows his identity as an assassin, for the origin of the money, she might be well aware of it and won’t investigate him further.

Chen Mingying isn’t clueless either, what Zhang Yurong can discern, Chen surely could too. Comparatively, stone gambling involves a certain amount of vision, knowledge, luck, etc., definitely better than deceitful methods of swindling venture capital.

"You reminded me, so let’s decide on it, I’ll join in this time. Let my friend help us fake it, if necessary, let him set up a dedicated company to cooperate."

Seeing Li Yan talking so easily, Duan Haibo felt a bit embarrassed... he’s proficient at kidnapping, rescuing people, even at warfare, but not as skilled in other aspects compared to Li Yan. One is a mercenary for group combat without needing individual disguises, everyone has different paths, determining what needs to be learned and understood varies; another is he lacks a specialized team cultivated for years with significant funding.

Handing Duan Haibo a cigarette, Li Yan asked another question: "Speaking of which... if one day, your woman knows your real identity, what will you do? What would she do?"

The issue Li Yan was facing seemed like something he could discuss with quite a few people like Yue Yao, Zheng Yixuan, Guan Ziyi, etc., who could speak honestly. But everyone’s situation is different, Zheng Yixuan is a big lawyer; He Bin launders money abroad with legal companies as well; not to mention He Zhengyuan and Zheng Yuzun, one runs a charity fund, and the other is an International Criminal Police; even Guan Ziyi has identities as an electronic expert, security consultant, or hacker, wouldn’t necessarily evoke resentment.

In the dark path, only the old eight Yu Mocheng and the old ten Wang Jiaqi remain. Wang Jiaqi is still young, not experiencing the troubles Li Yan does; Yu Mocheng transitioned from the mercenary world to the underworld influence openly and without concealment. So basically, everyone doesn’t face Li Yan’s dilemma, now retired Duan Haibo being in a similar role—all the while a mercenary does some shameful business, but not as hidden as an assassin.

Duan Haibo lit up the cigarette for both Li Yan and himself, took a puff, and then said bitterly: "I don’t know either. That’s why even with money, I don’t dare to use it; sometimes, when frustrated, I can only act meek, carefully hiding my identity. Just afraid that once it’s exposed, people won’t know how to face it."

"Can love really overcome these identity issues?" Li Yan laughed self-deprecatingly.

"It can... but we don’t live in a world solely of love. Secular life consists of many habits, rules, notions, constraints... She might accept everything about me, but it doesn’t mean her family, her friends would, nor does it mean she would be free from pressure."